Quotes About Persuasion

If you can steal an idea in someone's mind, why can't you plant one there instead?

Jack Kennedy brought an "intense concentration" and a "gently teasing humor" to the dinner table, along with what Katherine Graham called his habit of "vacuum cleaning your brain.

You need to teach your lips how to be persuasive," I would say, "You have a profound way of thinking, but you will lose your audience if you attack them. How could you have said that with more appeal?

Your influence is determined by your ability to get people to take action.

Too often, marketers rush in and smother consumers. Instead of a high-pressure pitch, what if you used a low-pressure (or anti-pressure) approach? Consider backing off a little. Pull customers in, rather than pushing them to buy. Build an anticipation gap.

Sermons seldom convert sinners; they sometimes goad them into more sin.

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

Belief just takes steady convincing.

The true object of loyalty is a good legal constitution, which, as it condemns every instance of oppression and lawless power, derives a certain remedy to the sufferer by allowing him to remonstrate his grievances, and pointing out methods of relief when the gentle arts of persuasion have lost their efficacy.

Language is best used where it is most efficiently abused.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse, but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

Moral influence means persuading another that one can make that other more uncomfortable than that other can make oneself.

Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.

Power is not sufficient evidence of truth.

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Discourse says, 'You are.' Rhetoric preserves the freedom to say, 'I am not.

The Christian evangelist falls into a similar trap if he opens up his Bible and says, 'It must be true, it's written here,' – because, of course, the fact that certain assertions are printed in a book does not prove them to be true. He will have to demonstrate that the Bible has that kind of authority, and if he cannot do so, he will have no reason to be annoyed if other people cannot accept what he says.

Truth is only belived when someone has invented it well.

It is not easy for us to equal the goddesses in beauty of form [...] Adonis desire and Afroditi poured nectar from a gold pitcher with hands Persuasion the Geraistion shrine lovers of no one I shall enter desire

It was funny how love could make people believe everything.

I told my parents she's a low-income student from inner-city Philadelphia who's going through some tough times at home right now, and I'm doing this as an outreach program through Rosewood Day. Amazingly, they bought it.